A Packed Program Driving Digital Transformation Forward

Kindly note that on April 13, 2026,
the General Member Assembly (4 pm)
and the Pre-Evening Event (6 pm)
will take place prior to the main conference program.

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Day 1

Day 2

Registration starts at 8:30 a.m.

All
Welcome
Lecture
Keynote
workshop
break
DATE
Plenary Hall
(4th floor)
Auditory 2
(2nd floor)
Auditory 3
(2nd floor)
Auditory 4
(2nd floor)
Auditory 5
(2nd floor)
Auditory 6
(3rd floor)
10:00
Welcome
Welcome & Opening
Speaker

Susanne Schöne

Philipp Wibbing

Board Member, UNITY | Expert in Digitalization & AI – Automotive & Healthcare

10:15 - 10:25
Welcome
prostep ivip Board Synchro
10:25 - 11:00
Keynote
Keynote CONTACT Software - Europe’s Industrial Moment: Why AI-Driven Platforms Outcompete Point Solutions

Dr. Patrick Müller

Chief Customer Officer at CONTACT Software

Frank Patz-Brockmann

Chief Product Officer at CONTACT Software

11:00 - 11:35
Keynote
Keynote STACKIT - Sovereignty by Design: The Catalyst for Europe’s Digital Industrial Future

Ghoutam Banerjee

Vice President Partner Ecosystems & Growth at STACKIT

11:35 - 12:10
Keynote
Keynote AVL - The Multi-Wave AI Transformation - Agentic Scaling of Development Speed by Design

Dr. Wolfgang Puntigam

Vice President Software | Head of the Integrated and Open Development Platform at AVL LIST GmbH

12:15 - 13:45
Break
Lunch Break, Exhibition, Guided Tours & Networking
Break
Break
Break
Break
Break
13:45 - 14:15
Lecture
Engineering Redefined: Volkswagen’s AI Blueprint for the Customer-Defined Vehicle Part 1/2

Thomas Kamla

Volkswagen AG

Michele Del Mondo

Senior Director - Global Advisor Automotive at PTC

Frédéric Besson

Dassault Systèmes

Robert Lokner

Managing Director EMEA Automotive Industry Lead | Microsoft

Lecture
Knowledge Brep-Graph: Enabling Collaborative Digital Engineering with STEP and Knowledge Graphs in the Age of Software-Centric Product Development

Julian Gebhard

Mercedes-Benz AG

Yübo Wang

Mercedes-Benz AG

Lecture
Shift Left Approach: System Integration Simulation with Software-in-the-Loop (SIL)

Karsten Krügel

dSPACE GmbH

Dr. Simon Olma

IAV GmbH

Lecture
JT as the standard format for tomorrow's digital world

Bernd Watzal

Mercedes-Benz AG

Thomas Ott

Aumovio

Workshop
SW-Defined-Defense and SW-Defined-Vehicles: Benefits, limitations and strategies for AI adoption Part 1/3

Hans-Jürgen Mantsch

Siemens Industry Software

Stella Feldkeller

Rheinmetall

Workshop
AI-Powered Homologation: Transforming Vehicle Approval Processes through Digitalization Part 1/3

Wolfgang Bern

Bern GmbH

Christian Kaptur

Dataciders GmbH

14:20 - 14:50
Lecture
Engineering Redefined: Volkswagen’s AI Blueprint for the Customer-Defined Vehicle Part 2/2

Thomas Kamla

Volkswagen AG

Michele Del Mondo

Senior Director - Global Advisor Automotive at PTC

Frédéric Besson

Dassault Systèmes

Robert Lokner

Managing Director EMEA Automotive Industry Lead | Microsoft

Lecture
Driving ECU Architectural Decisions with SysML v2, vECU and SSP

Dr. Hasan Esen

Senior Technical Manager at DENSO AUTOMOTIVE Deutschland GmbH

Oliver Bleisinger

:em engineering methods AG

Lecture
Rethinking Engineering with Siemens and Accenture

Jannik Seger

Senior Business Development & GTM Lead at Siemens AG

Mark Fischer

Accenture GmbH

Lecture
AI based driver for Vehicle Dynamics Simulation

Dr. Ronaldo Nunes

Mercedes-Benz AG

Tobias Heel

Management at TWT GmbH

Workshop
SW-Defined-Defense and SW-Defined-Vehicles: Benefits, limitations and strategies for AI adoption Part 2/3

Hans-Jürgen Mantsch

Siemens Industry Software

Stella Feldkeller

Rheinmetall

Workshop
AI-Powered Homologation: Transforming Vehicle Approval Processes through Digitalization Part 2/3

Wolfgang Bern

Bern GmbH

Christian Kaptur

Dataciders GmbH

14:55 - 15:25
Lecture
Accelerating Mazda’s Automotive Future: Holistic Application Lifecycle Management for Agile, Quality-Driven SDV Development

Tomohiko Adachi

Supreme Principal engineer at Mazda Motor Corporation

Christoph Braeuchle

PTC

Lecture
Lecture
No Semantics, No Intelligence: Why Agentic AI Remains Blind Without FDX

Dr. Ronaldo Nunes

Mercedes-Benz AG

Michael Baumann

Karakun AG

Lecture
Multimodal 3D Similarity Search: A Perspective on Research, Product Development, and Practical Application

Christian Lamping

Big Dutchman AG

Tin Barisin

Senior Research Scientist at CONTACT Software

Workshop
SW-Defined-Defense and SW-Defined-Vehicles: Benefits, limitations and strategies for AI adoption Part 3/3

Hans-Jürgen Mantsch

Siemens Industry Software

Stella Feldkeller

Rheinmetall

Workshop
AI-Powered Homologation: Transforming Vehicle Approval Processes through Digitalization Part 3/3

Wolfgang Bern

Bern GmbH

Christian Kaptur

Dataciders GmbH

15:30 - 16:00
Break
Coffee Break, Exhibition, Guided Tours & Networking
Break
Break
Break
Break
Break
16:00 - 16:30
Lecture
AI-driven Requirements Engineering for Product Development

Dr. Nicole Göckel

CONTACT Software GmbH

Alexander Krimm

Woco Industrietechnik GmbH

Lecture
From Simulation to Impact: Results from the Horizon Europe Research Project AccCellBaT

Daniel Krems

Strategic Initiatives Manager at AVL List GmbH

Sebastian Dörr

CONWEAVER GmbH

Lecture
SMART Standards – Uniting Industries Through a Common Language for Digital Engineering

Bernd Feldvoss

Airbus

Sven Bergander

Managing Director at DIN Solutions GmbH

Lecture
Expert Corner: Engineering at Digital Speed Part 1/2

Dr. Henrik Weimer

Digital Engineering & Enterprise Transformation Leader at Airbus

Kenneth Swope

Senior Manager - Digital & Systems Engineering at The Boeing Company

Rainer Eidloth

Senior Vice President Engineering Digitalization & IT | Schaeffler

Robert Lokner

Managing Director EMEA Automotive Industry Lead | Microsoft

Workshop
From Models to Agents: Bringing SDVxMBSE to Life with Agentic AI Part 1/3

Prof. Dr. Dirk Slama

Vice President at Bosch

Workshop
New Work meets Engineering: A Systematic Path to Future-Proof Development Processes Part 1/3

Juliane Balder

Technische Universität Berlin

16:35 - 17:05
Lecture
AI based support of vehicle launch process - example wiring harness

Dr. Volker Schmid

Senior Manager VAN development E/E Powersystems at Mercedes-Benz AG

Dr. Peyman Merat

UNITY AG

Lecture
From AI solutions to agentic car development

Jens Krueger

Executive Consultant - AI in Engineering at NTT DATA

Mathias Lichy

AI Program Manager R&D at Audi AG

Lecture
MBSE@Schaeffler - Enabler of the Digital Thread?

Till Reymann

Schaeffler AG

Klaus Mai

Head of Digital Engineering at :em engineering methods AG

Lecture
Expert Corner: Engineering at Digital Speed Part 2/2

Philipp Wibbing

Board Member, UNITY | Expert in Digitalization & AI – Automotive & Healthcare

Thomas Kriegel

Kriegel Systemkreativ Consulting

Dr.-Ing. Thilo Jania

Senior Vice President at Olympus Corporation

Workshop
From Models to Agents: Bringing SDVxMBSE to Life with Agentic AI Part 2/3

Prof. Dr. Dirk Slama

Vice President at Bosch

Workshop
New Work meets Engineering: A Systematic Path to Future-Proof Development Processes Part 2/3

Juliane Balder

Technische Universität Berlin

17:10 - 17:40
Lecture
Collaborative Digital Twins – Enabling Live Collaboration in Engineering: Project Results, Collaboration with Catena-X & Way Forward

Dr. Sebastian Handschuh

Head of Catena-X Architecture and Operation at Mercedes-Benz AG

Peter Gerber

Schaeffler AG

Lecture
The Role of Partnerships in Software Update Management: Business Opportunities and Operational Challenges

Dr. Thomas Dickopf

Software Update Management at AUDI AG

Lecture
Designing tomorrow’s CO₂ footprint today

Stefan Gattersleben

Product Owner Digitalization & Sustainability / Project Lead Digital Product Pass at Schaeffler AG

Agit Salcan

Transition Technologies PSC Germany GmbH

Lecture
Group Identity and Language: RAG in creating a common language platform

Katrin Fritz

Head of Identity & Accessmanagement at Volkswagen AG

Dr. Knut Stang

PROSTEP AG

Workshop
From Models to Agents: Bringing SDVxMBSE to Life with Agentic AI Part 3/3

Prof. Dr. Dirk Slama

Vice President at Bosch

Workshop
New Work meets Engineering: A Systematic Path to Future-Proof Development Processes Part 3/3

Juliane Balder

Technische Universität Berlin

17:45
Lecture
Get together
17:50
Lecture
Scientific Award

Dr. Lars Ullrich

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Gerold Schalk

Graz University of Technology

18:00
Lecture
Start up Pitch Award
18:20 - 18:50
Keynote
Beyond the Web: Why Context Is the True Foundation of Industrial AI

Robert Göbel

Co-Founder | Managing Director at SPREAD GmbH

EVENING EVENT from 7 p.m. to midnight on the 1st floor

Day 1

Day 2

Registration starts at 8:30 a.m.

All
Welcome
Lecture
Keynote
workshop
break
10:00
Plenary Hall
(4th floor)
Welcome
Welcome & Opening
Speaker

Susanne Schöne

Philipp Wibbing

Board Member, UNITY | Expert in Digitalization & AI – Automotive & Healthcare

10:15 - 10:25
Plenary Hall
(4th floor)
Welcome
prostep ivip Board Synchro
10:25 - 11:00
Plenary Hall
(4th floor)
Keynote
Keynote CONTACT Software - Europe’s Industrial Moment: Why AI-Driven Platforms Outcompete Point Solutions

Dr. Patrick Müller

Chief Customer Officer at CONTACT Software

Frank Patz-Brockmann

Chief Product Officer at CONTACT Software

11:00 - 11:35
Plenary Hall
(4th floor)
Keynote
Keynote STACKIT - Sovereignty by Design: The Catalyst for Europe’s Digital Industrial Future

Ghoutam Banerjee

Vice President Partner Ecosystems & Growth at STACKIT

11:35 - 12:10
Plenary Hall
(4th floor)
Keynote
Keynote AVL - The Multi-Wave AI Transformation - Agentic Scaling of Development Speed by Design

Dr. Wolfgang Puntigam

Vice President Software | Head of the Integrated and Open Development Platform at AVL LIST GmbH

12:15 - 13:45
Plenary Hall
(4th floor)
Break
Lunch Break, Exhibition, Guided Tours & Networking
Auditory 2
(2nd floor)
Break
Auditory 3
(2nd floor)
Break
Auditory 4
(2nd floor)
Break
Auditory 5
(2nd floor)
Break
Auditory 6
(3rd floor)
Break
13:45 - 14:15
Plenary Hall
(4th floor)
Lecture
Engineering Redefined: Volkswagen’s AI Blueprint for the Customer-Defined Vehicle Part 1/2

Thomas Kamla

Volkswagen AG

Michele Del Mondo

Senior Director - Global Advisor Automotive at PTC

Frédéric Besson

Dassault Systèmes

Robert Lokner

Managing Director EMEA Automotive Industry Lead | Microsoft

Auditory 2
(2nd floor)
Lecture
Knowledge Brep-Graph: Enabling Collaborative Digital Engineering with STEP and Knowledge Graphs in the Age of Software-Centric Product Development

Julian Gebhard

Mercedes-Benz AG

Yübo Wang

Mercedes-Benz AG

Auditory 3
(2nd floor)
Lecture
Shift Left Approach: System Integration Simulation with Software-in-the-Loop (SIL)

Karsten Krügel

dSPACE GmbH

Dr. Simon Olma

IAV GmbH

Auditory 4
(2nd floor)
Lecture
JT as the standard format for tomorrow's digital world

Bernd Watzal

Mercedes-Benz AG

Thomas Ott

Aumovio

Auditory 5
(2nd floor)
Workshop
SW-Defined-Defense and SW-Defined-Vehicles: Benefits, limitations and strategies for AI adoption Part 1/3

Hans-Jürgen Mantsch

Siemens Industry Software

Stella Feldkeller

Rheinmetall

Auditory 6
(3rd floor)
Workshop
AI-Powered Homologation: Transforming Vehicle Approval Processes through Digitalization Part 1/3

Wolfgang Bern

Bern GmbH

Christian Kaptur

Dataciders GmbH

14:20 - 14:50
Plenary Hall
(4th floor)
Lecture
Engineering Redefined: Volkswagen’s AI Blueprint for the Customer-Defined Vehicle Part 2/2

Thomas Kamla

Volkswagen AG

Michele Del Mondo

Senior Director - Global Advisor Automotive at PTC

Frédéric Besson

Dassault Systèmes

Robert Lokner

Managing Director EMEA Automotive Industry Lead | Microsoft

Auditory 2
(2nd floor)
Lecture
Driving ECU Architectural Decisions with SysML v2, vECU and SSP

Dr. Hasan Esen

Senior Technical Manager at DENSO AUTOMOTIVE Deutschland GmbH

Oliver Bleisinger

:em engineering methods AG

Auditory 3
(2nd floor)
Lecture
Rethinking Engineering with Siemens and Accenture

Jannik Seger

Senior Business Development & GTM Lead at Siemens AG

Mark Fischer

Accenture GmbH

Auditory 4
(2nd floor)
Lecture
AI based driver for Vehicle Dynamics Simulation

Dr. Ronaldo Nunes

Mercedes-Benz AG

Tobias Heel

Management at TWT GmbH

Auditory 5
(2nd floor)
Workshop
SW-Defined-Defense and SW-Defined-Vehicles: Benefits, limitations and strategies for AI adoption Part 2/3

Hans-Jürgen Mantsch

Siemens Industry Software

Stella Feldkeller

Rheinmetall

Auditory 6
(3rd floor)
Workshop
AI-Powered Homologation: Transforming Vehicle Approval Processes through Digitalization Part 2/3

Wolfgang Bern

Bern GmbH

Christian Kaptur

Dataciders GmbH

14:55 - 15:25
Plenary Hall
(4th floor)
Lecture
Accelerating Mazda’s Automotive Future: Holistic Application Lifecycle Management for Agile, Quality-Driven SDV Development

Tomohiko Adachi

Supreme Principal engineer at Mazda Motor Corporation

Christoph Braeuchle

PTC

Auditory 2
(2nd floor)
Lecture
Auditory 3
(2nd floor)
Lecture
No Semantics, No Intelligence: Why Agentic AI Remains Blind Without FDX

Dr. Ronaldo Nunes

Mercedes-Benz AG

Michael Baumann

Karakun AG

Auditory 4
(2nd floor)
Lecture
Multimodal 3D Similarity Search: A Perspective on Research, Product Development, and Practical Application

Christian Lamping

Big Dutchman AG

Tin Barisin

Senior Research Scientist at CONTACT Software

Auditory 5
(2nd floor)
Workshop
SW-Defined-Defense and SW-Defined-Vehicles: Benefits, limitations and strategies for AI adoption Part 3/3

Hans-Jürgen Mantsch

Siemens Industry Software

Stella Feldkeller

Rheinmetall

Auditory 6
(3rd floor)
Workshop
AI-Powered Homologation: Transforming Vehicle Approval Processes through Digitalization Part 3/3

Wolfgang Bern

Bern GmbH

Christian Kaptur

Dataciders GmbH

15:30 - 16:00
Plenary Hall
(4th floor)
Break
Coffee Break, Exhibition, Guided Tours & Networking
Auditory 2
(2nd floor)
Break
Auditory 3
(2nd floor)
Break
Auditory 4
(2nd floor)
Break
Auditory 5
(2nd floor)
Break
Auditory 6
(3rd floor)
Break
16:00 - 16:30
Plenary Hall
(4th floor)
Lecture
AI-driven Requirements Engineering for Product Development

Dr. Nicole Göckel

CONTACT Software GmbH

Alexander Krimm

Woco Industrietechnik GmbH

Auditory 2
(2nd floor)
Lecture
From Simulation to Impact: Results from the Horizon Europe Research Project AccCellBaT

Daniel Krems

Strategic Initiatives Manager at AVL List GmbH

Sebastian Dörr

CONWEAVER GmbH

Auditory 3
(2nd floor)
Lecture
SMART Standards – Uniting Industries Through a Common Language for Digital Engineering

Bernd Feldvoss

Airbus

Sven Bergander

Managing Director at DIN Solutions GmbH

Auditory 4
(2nd floor)
Lecture
Expert Corner: Engineering at Digital Speed Part 1/2

Dr. Henrik Weimer

Digital Engineering & Enterprise Transformation Leader at Airbus

Kenneth Swope

Senior Manager - Digital & Systems Engineering at The Boeing Company

Rainer Eidloth

Senior Vice President Engineering Digitalization & IT | Schaeffler

Robert Lokner

Managing Director EMEA Automotive Industry Lead | Microsoft

Auditory 5
(2nd floor)
Workshop
From Models to Agents: Bringing SDVxMBSE to Life with Agentic AI Part 1/3

Prof. Dr. Dirk Slama

Vice President at Bosch

Auditory 6
(3rd floor)
Workshop
New Work meets Engineering: A Systematic Path to Future-Proof Development Processes Part 1/3

Juliane Balder

Technische Universität Berlin

16:35 - 17:05
Plenary Hall
(4th floor)
Lecture
AI based support of vehicle launch process - example wiring harness

Dr. Volker Schmid

Senior Manager VAN development E/E Powersystems at Mercedes-Benz AG

Dr. Peyman Merat

UNITY AG

Auditory 2
(2nd floor)
Lecture
From AI solutions to agentic car development

Jens Krueger

Executive Consultant - AI in Engineering at NTT DATA

Mathias Lichy

AI Program Manager R&D at Audi AG

Auditory 3
(2nd floor)
Lecture
MBSE@Schaeffler - Enabler of the Digital Thread?

Till Reymann

Schaeffler AG

Klaus Mai

Head of Digital Engineering at :em engineering methods AG

Auditory 4
(2nd floor)
Lecture
Expert Corner: Engineering at Digital Speed Part 2/2

Philipp Wibbing

Board Member, UNITY | Expert in Digitalization & AI – Automotive & Healthcare

Thomas Kriegel

Kriegel Systemkreativ Consulting

Dr.-Ing. Thilo Jania

Senior Vice President at Olympus Corporation

Auditory 5
(2nd floor)
Workshop
From Models to Agents: Bringing SDVxMBSE to Life with Agentic AI Part 2/3

Prof. Dr. Dirk Slama

Vice President at Bosch

Auditory 6
(3rd floor)
Workshop
New Work meets Engineering: A Systematic Path to Future-Proof Development Processes Part 2/3

Juliane Balder

Technische Universität Berlin

17:10 - 17:40
Plenary Hall
(4th floor)
Lecture
Collaborative Digital Twins – Enabling Live Collaboration in Engineering: Project Results, Collaboration with Catena-X & Way Forward

Dr. Sebastian Handschuh

Head of Catena-X Architecture and Operation at Mercedes-Benz AG

Peter Gerber

Schaeffler AG

Auditory 2
(2nd floor)
Lecture
The Role of Partnerships in Software Update Management: Business Opportunities and Operational Challenges

Dr. Thomas Dickopf

Software Update Management at AUDI AG

Auditory 3
(2nd floor)
Lecture
Designing tomorrow’s CO₂ footprint today

Stefan Gattersleben

Product Owner Digitalization & Sustainability / Project Lead Digital Product Pass at Schaeffler AG

Agit Salcan

Transition Technologies PSC Germany GmbH

Auditory 4
(2nd floor)
Lecture
Group Identity and Language: RAG in creating a common language platform

Katrin Fritz

Head of Identity & Accessmanagement at Volkswagen AG

Dr. Knut Stang

PROSTEP AG

Auditory 5
(2nd floor)
Workshop
From Models to Agents: Bringing SDVxMBSE to Life with Agentic AI Part 3/3

Prof. Dr. Dirk Slama

Vice President at Bosch

Auditory 6
(3rd floor)
Workshop
New Work meets Engineering: A Systematic Path to Future-Proof Development Processes Part 3/3

Juliane Balder

Technische Universität Berlin

17:45
Plenary Hall
(4th floor)
Lecture
Get together
17:50
Plenary Hall
(4th floor)
Lecture
Scientific Award

Dr. Lars Ullrich

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Gerold Schalk

Graz University of Technology

18:00
Plenary Hall
(4th floor)
Lecture
Start up Pitch Award
18:20 - 18:50
Plenary Hall
(4th floor)
Keynote
Beyond the Web: Why Context Is the True Foundation of Industrial AI

Robert Göbel

Co-Founder | Managing Director at SPREAD GmbH

EVENING EVENT from 7 p.m. to midnight on the 1st floor

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BECOME PROSTEP IVIP MEMBER NOW!

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